Visual Arts History 1042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eadweard Muybridge, Criminal Type, John William Draper
17 Dec 2017
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Art is an important aspect of modernity. Intro of photography is crucial in modern vison and modern ways of seeing: new ways of thinking, camera obsurca since 16th century. Joseph nicephore niepce, view from his window: able to fix images from obscura on metal, once able to fix image with drawing, called a camera, oldest extant photographic image avilbe. Talbot the open door: fix images on paper, the pencil of nature. Understood that this new invention: very painting like, treated in chemicals that made them yellow. Book about the scientific and practical uses of photography. Use as evidence, proof of owner ship. From its inseption photography was hand and glove with capatlism. Modernity and new ways of seeing, a new way of understanding. Daguerre: daguerreotypes, first person to have claimed owner ship (french) over photography, wasn"t really a french invention, it was being worked on world wide.
